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Krieg, John M.; Henson, Steven E. – Education Finance and Policy, 2016
Using a large student-level dataset from a medium-sized regional comprehensive university, we measure the impact of taking an online prerequisite course on follow-up course grades. To control for self-selection into online courses, we utilize student, instructor, course, and time fixed effects augmented with an instrumental variable approach. We…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Academic Achievement, College Students, Grades (Scholastic)
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Nilsson, Pernilla – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
It is a common view that developing teachers' competence to restructure or reframe their knowledge and beliefs is inevitably a complex challenge. This paper reports on a research project with the aim to develop science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) through their participation in a learning study. A learning study is a…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Science Instruction
Peper, John; And Others – 1992
This study examined the effects of non-traditional instructional methods on student learning in an engineering course at the University of Texas at El Paso. The summer 1993 material selection course enrolled 33 students, the majority of whom were Hispanic Americans. Instead of the traditional lecture method, the course employed student project…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education